What ࡅ means
Its roots are disputed: Aramaic or Parthian government writing.
Mandaic reads right to left; joining can change this letter's displayed shape.
Mandaeans in southern Mesopotamia used the script for ritual and liturgical writing. Early documents include ritual charms on lead rolls and terracotta bowls; the bowls date to AD 600–800, and some rolls are earlier. Later Mandaic appears in sacred manuscripts and some Neo-Mandaic (modern Mandaic) writing. The script has an Aramaic family link; Elymaic and Characene are proposed relatives.
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Who writes ࡅ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ࡅ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ࡅ
- Search it as
- ushenna · Mandaic ushenna · Mandaic waw · Mandaic vowel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ࡅ\0845Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.